How the Dead Dream
A Novel
by Lydia Millet
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General Adult. T. is a young Los Angeles real estate developer consumed by power and political ambitions. His orderly, upwardly mobile life is thrown into chaos by the sudden appearance of his nutty mother, whos been deserted by T.s now out-of-the-closet father. After his mothers suicide attempt and two other deaths, T. finds himself increasingly estranged from his latest project: a retirement community in the middle of the California desert. As he juggles family, business, and social responsibilities, T. begins to nurture a curious obsession with vanishing species. Soon hes living a double life, building sprawling subdivisions by day and breaking into zoos at night to be near the animals.
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How the dead dream: a novel
2009, Mariner Books-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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0156035464 9780156035460
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How the Dead Dream: A Novel
January 25, 2008, Counterpoint
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in English
1593761848 9781593761844
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